The Last Witch

DARVO and lessons from powerful men in control of the narrative.

The Swiss beheaded the accused witch, Anna Goldi, on June 13, 1782.

All power corrupts, but I would go further. The loftier the pretensions of the power, the more meddlesome, inhuman, and oppressive it will be. Claiming authority from God (theocracy) is the worst of all possible governments.

All political power is at best a necessary evil, but it is least evil when its sanctions are most modest and commonplace, when it claims no more than to be useful or convenient and sets itself strictly limited objectives.

Anything transcendental or spiritual, or even anything very strongly ethical, in its pretensions is dangerous … and I admit and even insist, is the worst corruption of all.

—From The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays, by C.S. Lewis

When powerful, wealthy men in “public service to God” obtain massive wealth, fame, and influence, they have, according to C.S. Lewis, “the worst corruption of all.”

I write this post on a Saturday afternoon with my fellow Christians at Gateway Church (S…